Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-16
TEXAS PANHANDLE.
A STEADY Increase In Population and
Production OF Grain and Cotton.
4 Few Comparisons.
An AnEwer to ICquiries from Home Seek
ers-Eow Land Can be Obtaired
and In What Quantities.

FORT WORTH, TEN, Aug. -, les1.
To the Gator OF the Gazette.
TIE increased wealth of the state of
TeXss from the Is. day Of Janusry from
various sources is by actual computation
S2t, $50 C0. This represents an Increased
valuation In real estate, railroads and the
augmented values brought about By the
development of the natural resources OF
the stste By the railroads penetrating its
territory.
This growth is but medium statement
OF facts that are recognized by investors
all over the country.
a Chicago paper says Of Illinois: "Tvo
showers Ii April and one eecn III Map
and June have had but a temporary effect
on crops. S.unted yellow spears, bend
Ing discOnsOlately over immense beds of
dust, are the only evidence that farmers
sowed any corn this year. Leaves OF
fruit trees axe IL ling off, and fruit which
promised o be plentiful is wrinkied and
dried to the st9G."
Texas, In the worst drouth the state has
ever passed through, could present no
such terrible pICtule as this. The Pan
handle has been without rain from June
till Ncyen Der, bu. only once has Lh!s
been known.
For years this country has had steady
increase in population and product OF
grain sud cotton. Reports from seventy
i've counties in the state show an in
crease in the acreage of cotton planted.
Five counties report q feir yearly average.
Seventy-twO Couuties report good stand
OF cotton, and two counties report fair
average. ) Xty. five counties report an
Increase in the acreage Ct corn as com
pared with 1856, and nine counties re-
port the acreage as q little over the
average.
Wheat is reported, on the whole. as
being 100 per cent. greater than last year
in the northwestern portion CT the state;
oats, miilet and johnson grass about the
same.
lake great pleasure in Offering you
the following information IS to how to
acquire the public lands in Texas. as
there eTe constant inquiries being made
from hOme-seekers to purchase some OF
cur public lands, we reply, once for all,
that yOu cannot bug less than 100 Scres,
or 800, or $50, or G40, but no more unle SIS
you select purely grazing land without
permanent water and not adapted to ag
riCultuTu. II this pasture land, you can
huV not to exceed four sections. The.
dry land will cost you two dollars per
acre, bHg you must come in person TO the
county .eat OF the county where the land
lies, Or % which it is attached if in er I'M
orgGn!Z ID county, and call on the county
clerk, who will show you public record
Of the classification Of all unsOld state
lands. X s,n looking the ground over
you ind the land to suit you, you will get
blank form for su application .te pur :
chase, aid such other information con-
corning the law and the land as MAYBE
known TO him. You will then execute g
sworn affidavit, In your application to
purchase, thst you want the land for
homestead and no other person or cor
porstion is Interested in the purchase,
and that you will, within six moRth9, &C
tuslly settle upon the land and improve
the same. You will forward your april
cation to purchase direct TO Hon. Il. NJ
Ball, state land commissioner, Austin,
Texas, enclosing the sum Of S32 to the
order of Ex-Governor +. Lubbock,
state treasurer. This is one-fortieth of
the principal on section of dry agricul-
tural land.
II you select land with permanent water
on 1t, the cost will be increased 10 s. per
acre. which is one-third more than the
unwatered land. II you buy land that is
valued chiefly for it's timber, you will pay
So s. acre cash down. On all of these
lands except the timber sections you
will pay one-fortieth of the principal an
nually, according to the appraisement
puJ on each section in Classifying and
valuing it. Each annual payment on the
principal must be made on or before
the lst of August, together with interest
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on
the unpaid principal.
After you have occupied the land for
three consecutive years and made the re-
Quired payments of principal and interest
due ct that date, you will be allowed to
pay the balance due on the land and OBJ
tain patent for the same, provided you
make satisfactory preof that you have
resided on the land fer the time specified.
At any time after you have settled on the
land and bought it you can sell it TO
another sexual settler, who will be re-
qnired to assume vour obligation to the
state. All the unsold state lands are no.
On the malk, for sale to ectusl settlers,
only for the benefit Of the common school,
the State University, Lunatic Asylum,
oAlhu bCnl unb bu EaSS III IL
and the Orphan Asylum funds.
The Donley land district is composed
OF the counties Of Donley, Armstrong,
Briscoe, Carson, Randall and Swisher,
with headquarters OF Clarendon. Public
lands in these counties are being culled
every day. Excellent state lands can be
had here snd good location secured by
coming at once. The sooner you come
the better you will be served. When you
come, call on us and we will take pleas
ure in telling YOU sll we know about the
Panhandle = Panhandle News.
Land which has heretofore been known
in the state as purely grazing, as distin
guished from agricultural, watered OF
numbered sections, is intrinsically OF more
value TO the f5rmer than either OF the
other two classes. WHAT is known as
grazing lands resembles the plains OF
Kansas and Nebraska, gently rolling
pr4iries on which wafer can be found at
depths varying from twenty-five to
seyenty-flve feet. On the higher lands
The depths st which water is found il
greater. On what are known as wateree
lands in Texas, there are large tracts Of
barren country, either sand
or rock, and their value is
much less than that of the rich prsi-
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